Improvement In Action Te Ahu Whakamua

Day of the long hard look – Kerikeri High School

We identified we had been data rich but information poor.

Members of a schoolstrategic change leadership team discuss how a significant drop in the NCEA achievement outcomes of their Māori students, which had been consistently tracking upwards since 2009, created a context that required a critically reflective analysis of both cohort and individual data, alongside a review of the current tracking and monitoring processes and tools.

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Domain 2: Leadership for equity and excellence

Evaluation indicator

Leadership builds collective capacity to do evaluation and inquiry for sustained improvement

Key content

Leadership responded to a drop in achievement with an in depth investigation into why it hadn’t been possible to anticipate the issue and formulate a response

The adoption of improved tracking tools was supported by external expertise to accelerate their implementation